Do Your Part, U.K. Declares

To Fight Credit Crunch, Should Companies Pay Their Suppliers Faster?

Weeks after setting plans to inject hundreds of billions of pounds to rescue the banking sector, the government has a message for big corporations: They need to do their part.

Shriti Vadera, one of the government's senior officials for business, said in an interview that big companies could do more to keep the flow of money moving through the economy. "We are now talking to the wider public sector, and we will be talking to the bigger businesses about what they will do to help on a cash-flow basis," she said....